Steven Pinker (Steven Arthur Pinker) Quotes

People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political assumptions, often because they haven't given much thought to the connections.

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• I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Think
  • Science
  • Mistake

• Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Family
  • Texas
  • Farm

• I have thought about the next steps, and you know, they still don't know that I can dance. They don't know it, and it's frustrating me because I feel that it's an edge that I have, and I'm not talking about I took this hip hop class, I'm talking about this is how people actually know me.

  

  Naima Adedapo
  • People
  • Dance
  • Thought

• I'm an actor, paid to act. I don't bring personal problems to the sets. Dad taught me that.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Dad
  • Actor
  • Problems

• Global terror does not respect national boundaries.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Respect
  • Boundaries
  • Global

• To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Power
  • Action
  • Effective

• There has to be room for people to make mistakes and lead their own lives.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • People
  • Mistakes
  • Lead

• I'm in awful shape. I'm trying to get in better shape. My girlfriend, she's in good shape. She gives me health tips sometimes, like, 'Hannibal, you're going to die.' Stuff like that.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Trying
  • Health
  • Girlfriend

• There is no bigger crime, in the English comic novel, than thinking you are right.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Thinking
  • You
  • English

• There is an unbroken line of police violence in the United States that takes us all the way back to the days of slavery, the aftermath of slavery, the development of the Ku Klux Klan. There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole racist edifice.

  

  Angela Davis
  • History
  • Justice
  • Violence

• Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Music
  • Art
  • Idea

• A wish is a dish that's a lot like a fish: Once it's been eaten it's harder to throw back. - Mr. Rakshasas

  

  P.B. Kerr
  • Wish

• We must start understanding other cultures, such as the Aboriginal culture. They have a harmony with the Earth and from that harmony has grown a certain spirituality.

  

  Ian Cohen
  • Earth
  • Culture
  • Understanding

• With function, flow, and form as basis, design is evaluated as a process culminating in an entity which intensifies comprehension.

  

  Ladislav Sutnar
  • Design

• According as a man acts and walks in the path of life, so he becomes. He that does good becomes good; he that does evil becomes evil. By pure actions he becomes pure; by evil actions he becomes evil.

  

  Yajnavalkya
  • Life
  • Good
  • Men

• I told my son, who's 11, "Look, I don't care if you curse - it's other people that care." So we tried that experiment, and he just cursed all the time. And I was like, "All right, now I care that you curse." You try to have this idealized view, and it's like, "I don't care." But it's just going to cause chaos.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • People
  • Trying
  • Care

• I try to be more goofy when I'm on set now that I'm more comfortable. In real life, I'm so goofy and super weird. I'm never mean but people don't see the weird side of me.

  

  Gigi Hadid
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• Many people wait throughout their whole lives for the chance to be good in their own fashion.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Fashion
  • Lives
  • Many People

• My day does not truly begin until I've acquired and consumed a 32-ounce Big Gulp of diet coke from 7-Eleven. It's the Big Gulp that's important, not 7-Eleven, where I find the employees rather disagreeable.

  

  Cate Marvin
  • Important
  • Bigs
  • Employee

• There is something uniquely American about the motel: It speaks to the transient nature of America itself, one enabled and encouraged by our roads and highways.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • American
  • America
  • Nature

• We're either going to be dependent on dirty oil from the Gulf or dirty oil from Canada.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Canada
  • Gulf
  • Dirty oil

• People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political assumptions, often because they haven't given much thought to the connections.

  

  Steven Pinker
  • Connections
  • Uncomfortable
  • Claims